The story of life in 25 fossils tales of intrepid fossil hunters and the wonders of evolution prothero donald r 9780231171908 books amazonca. The story of life in 25 fossils tales of intrepid fossil hunters and the wonders of evolution ebook prothero donald r amazonca kindle store. When charles darwin publishedon the origin of speciesin 1859 the fossil record was a weak spot in his argumentalmost no satisfactory transitional fossils were known including none of the fossils discussed in this book the first good one to be discovered wasarchaeopteryxin 1861 chapter 18even more troubling was the absence of any fossils that date to before the earliest period of the . Even though i have indeed learned much of scientific interest perusing donald r protheros the story of life in 25 fossils tales of intrepid fossil hunters and the wonders of evolution in particular with regard to so called transitional forms fossils that they are fortunately ever increasingly common more and more the rule and not the exception and thereby of course also showing and proving evolution at work and as truth no matter what the creationists might claim otherwise and that i als